sculptural preferences

[john pitt <jrpitt01@zzzzzzzzzzz>]

Just as a postcript on my earlier post

I came across this Henry Moore quote:

"You see, there is a difference between scale and size. A
small sculpture only three or four inches big can have
about it a monumental scale...a small thing only a few
inches big might seem, if it has a monumental scale, to be
any size...When this work has this monumentality about it,
then you can enlarge it almost to any size you like, and it
will be all right; it will be correct...I can't explain
what it is that gives monumental scale to something. I
think it's an inate vision, a mental thing rather than a
physical thing. It's in the mind rather than in the
material."

With reference to the examples I gave, I think the Venus
and the Cycladic pieces have monumentality - but the Easter
Island pieces are just big. That is to say - the Venus, for
example, could almost be any size and still work, as could
the Cycladic.

[Quote from "Henry Moore on Sculpture, Macdonald, London,
1966]

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John Pitt

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